Realistic Coloring: How to add authentic texture to your Copic Marker and colored pencil projects
Do you blend everything smooth?
My latest Copic Marker Coloring Tips video at YouTube is all about texture.
As a beginner, most colorers focus on blending skills. After all, the blends are what originally attracted you to markers in the first place.
So you dream about blending, you practice blending, and the color blends are what you notice most when you go online to look at other coloring projects and tutorials.
Blend, blend, blend.
But wait, are you stuck on blending?
Copic Markers: Do you make coloring harder than it has to be?
wow, that is so complicated!
What did you think when you first saw the Indian Maize project here?
All those colors on each little kernel? I’ll bet it took weeks to color!
Weeks? Really?
I’ve noticed over the years, some very experienced Copic Marker fans add lots of extra steps to the coloring process that don’t really pay off in the end.
A lot of people make dimensional coloring harder than it has to be.
Do you?
Copic Markers: Is blending the key to dimension or realism? (plus, coloring with chisel nibs!)
I want lots of dimension in my Copic coloring!
"So I must blend, blend, blend!
Right?
Hmmm...
Do you really think so?
I mean, I know that's what you've been told or at least it's what you've….
Artistic Coloring: Are You Ready for Advanced Techniques? Realism, Expression, Artistry
Do you take a lot of Copic Marker classes?
Do you do a lot of tutorial projects?
But do you also find yourself…